The Application of Risk Management Education Strategies to Mitigate Land Loss in Socially Disadvantaged Communities in East Texas through Transition and Estate Planning
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Landowners Assocation of Texas
Project Director: Billy Lawton (bclawton.ag@yahoo.com)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project will address Land Loss in seven (7) persistence...
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2020-2022 Crop Insurance and Risk Management Education for New Hampshire Farmers
Award Amount: $88,785
Institution: University of New Hampshire
Project Director: Kenesha Reynolds (kenesha.reynolds@unh.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
UNH Cooperative Extension, will partner
with Farm Commons, Organization for Refugee...
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2020-21 Financial Viability Programming for Nebraska Women in Agriculture
Award Amount: $49,124
Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Project Director: Jessica Groskopf (jgroskopf2@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
According to United States Department of Agriculture, one-third of
Nebraska's farm...
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A Bilingual Training and Education Program to Improve Practices that Affect Milk Quality
Award Amount: $39,709
Institution: University of Nebraska Lincoln
Project Director: Kimberly Clark (kimclark@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Many dairy farms hire Spanish speaking employees with little to...
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Advancing Farmworker Disaster Resilience
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Rhizobia LLC
Project Director: Natalia Pinzon Jimenez (natalia@nataliapinzon.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The threat of wide-sweeping, rapid-burning wildfires has been compounding exponentially...
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Ag Enterprise Explorer Tool
Award Amount: $2,000
Institution: The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Project Director: Leigh Presley (leigh.presley@wisc.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($3,000 maximum)
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Agriculture Human Resources Boot Camp III: Development of a Strategic HR Risk Management Plan
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Washington Farm Bureau
Project Director: Rick Gastelum (rgastelum@wsfb.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Agriculture
is an industry that faces production, marketing, financial and legal...
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Agritourism Intensive 2020: Managing the Risks of Agritourism for California Farm and Ranch Diversification
Award Amount: $49,961
Institution: University of California, Davis
Project Director: Gail Feenstra (gwfeenstra@ucdavis.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project delivers strategies for understanding, assessing the opportunities, and...
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Alabama Black Belt Risk Management Education Program
Award Amount: $99,068
Institution: DuBois Institute for Entrepreneurship
Project Director: Michael Jackson (mjackson@dife.us)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
DuBois Institute “Alabama Black Belt Risk Management Education Program” proposes...
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Assessment of Current Training Options and Gaps for Climate Variability Risk for Farmers in California
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: CCOF Foundation
Project Director: Jessica Parr (jparr@ccof.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects
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Boosting rural economies through food innovation startup with mentored entrepreneurial support.
Award Amount: $26,053
Institution: University of Arkansas System, Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service
Project Director: Amanda Philyaw Perez (aperez@uada.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The focus on local foods has potential to create
opportunities to...
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Building a Resilient Risk Management Network for Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Award Amount: $37,930
Institution: Future Harvest, Inc.
Project Director: Niamh Shortt (niamh@futureharvest.org)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, the critical role of resilient...
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Building Capacity to Educate and Develop Awareness of Risk Management and Crop Insurance Among Hawaii’s Underserved Producers
Award Amount: $55,000
Institution: University of Hawaii
Project Director: Shannon Sand (srsand@hawaii.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
In
recent years, Hawaii producers have faced adverse weather conditions...
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Building Market Resiliency in Iowa Through Advanced Grain Marketing Workshops for Women
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Project Director: Madeline Schultz (schultz@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The project team will develop and deliver advanced grain marketing...
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Building Resiliency by Protecting Specialty Crop and Livestock Farms
Award Amount: $85,116
Institution: National Center for Appropriate Technology
Project Director: Rockiell Woods (rockw@ncat.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
The goal of NCAT’s project is to build economic and...
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Building Resilient Farms by Reducing Risk and Increasing Profitability in Agroforestry
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology
Project Director: Amanda Kik (amanda@crosshatch.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Building Resilient Farms by Reducing Risk and Increasing Profitability in...
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California Farmers Build Fire Resilience
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: Nuestra Comunidad
Project Director: Alma Bowen (nuestracomunidad707@yahoo.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects
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Connecting Farmers with Organic Crop Insurance Resources
Award Amount: $74,492
Institution: Center for Rural Affairs
Project Director: Johnathan Hladik (johnathanh@cfra.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
The Center for Rural Affairs will connect organic farmers in...
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Crop and Livestock Insurance Basics for Traditionally Undeserved Producers
Award Amount: $74,724
Institution: Oklahoma State University
Project Director: JJ Jones (jj.jones@okstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
Agriculture in Oklahoma endures economic burdens originating from depressed prices,...
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Crop Insurance Education for Dairy Producers, Native Americans and Other underserved producers
Award Amount: $54,936
Institution: Utah State University
Project Director: Ryan Larsen (ryan.larsen@usu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
This project will address producers underserved by crop
insurance with targeted...
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Decisions in Implementing Precision Dairy Technologies to Improve Dairy Farm Profitability and Labor Efficiency.
Award Amount: $49,223
Institution: Iowa State University
Project Director: Jennifer Bentley (jbentley@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project will help guide the decision-making process for new...
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Developing a Drought Management Plan for the Ranch
Award Amount: $46,670
Institution: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Project Director: Justin Benavidez (benavidezjustin@tamu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Drought is an ever-present concern of
Texas livestock and forage producers....
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Developing Risk Management and Marketing Plans for Shellfish Growers, Women, and Beginning Farmers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts
Award Amount: $99,765
Institution: National Crop Insurance Services, Inc.
Project Director: Laurence Crane (laurencec@ag-risk.org)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
Applied education consisting of sequential
workshops, supplemented by personal assignments and...
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Development of an on-line 'Forage Basics' course for livestock and forage producers
Award Amount: $49,608
Institution: Auburn University
Project Director: Leanne Dillard (dillasa@auburn.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project will increase the scope and reach of forage
risk...
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Economic & Legal Considerations for Hemp Production in Texas
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Project Director: Tiffany Dowell Lashmet (tdowell@tamu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
In the midst of low commodity prices, many Texas farmers...
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Effective Budgeting, Negotiation, and Management Strategies for Agricultural Land
Award Amount: $28,506
Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Project Director: Jim Jansen (jjansen4@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The purpose of this
project will be to address the current...
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Expanding Extension Risk Management Education Using Insurance and Non-Insurance Based Tools for Small Farmers and Ranchers in Selected Counties in Florida
Award Amount: $49,891
Institution: North-South Institute
Project Director: Samuel Scott (nsied2002@aol.com)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The long-term goal of this project is
to expand extension risk...
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Exploration of Demand for Farm Financial Resiliency Training
Award Amount: $3,000
Institution: Utah State University
Project Director: Ryan Larsen (ryan.larsen@usu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects
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Exploration of Demand for Farm Financial Resiliency Training
Award Amount: $3,000
Institution: University of Nebraska Lincoln
Project Director: Matthew Stockton (mstockton2@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($3,000 maximum)
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EXPLORATORY STUDY TO UNDERSTAND RISK MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE OF PRODUCERS AT FARMER’S MARKETS
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: Middle Tennessee State University
Project Director: Kishor Luitel (kishor.luitel@mtsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($5,000 maximum)
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Exploring Alternative Pest Management Techniques for Hemp: A Needs Assessment of Eastern Oregon and Southern Idaho Hemp Growers
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
Project Director: Christina Stucker-Gassi (cstuckergassi@pesticide.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects
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F-A-R-M Education: Financial and Risk Management Education for Minority Populations and Limited Resource Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Award Amount: $100,000
Institution: Rural South Institute, Inc
Project Director: Tommie B. Teacher (rsi.ruralsouthinstitute@gmail.com)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
The Rural South Institute, in collaboration
with Tri-State Rabbit Growers Association,...
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Farm Communication Coaching: A Four-Session Approach
Award Amount: $46,027
Institution: University of Maine
Project Director: Leslie Forstadt (leslie.forstadt@maine.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Farm Communication Coaching utilizes
an evidence-based curriculum to assist farmers in...
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Farm Health and Safety Best Practice Training
Award Amount: $29,289
Institution: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County
Project Director: Jim O'Connell (jmo98@cornell.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Proposed topics: equipment safety, safe animal handling, zoonotic diseases, repetitive...
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Farm Pulse Continuum - In-Person and On-line Financial Management and Analysis Program
Award Amount: $49,955
Institution: The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Project Director: Katie Wantoch (katie.wantoch@wisc.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Wisconsin farmers are experiencing a prolonged period of significant financial...
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Farm Survival, Understanding the Role of Risk Exposure in Financial Decision Making
Award Amount: $26,447
Institution: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Project Director: Glennis McClure (gmcclure3@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Producers make investment decisions based on the difference
between expected revenue...
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Financial Analysis for the Ages
Award Amount: $48,886
Institution: Illinois FBFM
Project Director: Robert Rhea (bobrhea@adams.net)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project occurs during a period of negative farmer returns...
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First Aid/CPR Training: Improving Farm Safety for H2A Workers on Tobacco Farms
Award Amount: $3,941
Institution: The University of Tennessee
Project Director: Xiurui Cui (xcui10@utk.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($5,000 maximum)
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Hands-On Training for Nontraditional Farmers
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Project Director: Frances Bayne (admin@tofga.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($5,000 maximum)
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Helping Farmers Navigate the Risks and Challenges to Producing and Selling Hemp in California and Oregon
Award Amount: $49,999
Institution: National Center for Appropriate Technology
Project Director: Rex Dufour (rexd@ncat.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
Hemp is an agricultural commodity that became
federally legal two years...
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Helping Tennessee Farmers Evaluate and Implement New Enterprises and Marketing Strategies
Award Amount: $49,972
Institution: University of Tennessee Extension, Center for Profitable Agriculture
Project Director: Megan Leffew (mleffew@utk.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The Helping Tennessee Farmers
Evaluate and Implement New Enterprises and Marketing...
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Hemp Risk Management Education in Pennsylvania
Award Amount: $30,000
Institution: The Pennsylvania State University
Project Director: Claudia Schmidt (czs786@psu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
With the legalization of
industrial hemp production in Pennsylvania in 2018,...
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Implementing Risk Management and Marketing Plans for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers in Georgia
Award Amount: $99,961
Institution: National Crop Insurance Services
Project Director: Laurence Crane (laurencec@ag-risk.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
Applied education consisting of sequential workshops,
supplemented by personal assignments and...
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Improving Delivery of Risk Education for Farmers at the Southern SAWG Conference
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Project Director: Keith Richards (keith@ssawg.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($5,000 maximum)
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Improving Farm Goal Setting and Decision-making while Increasing Farm Mental Aptitude, Mindset Tactics, and Stress Resiliency
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Iowa State University
Project Director: Larry Tranel (tranel@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Farm mental health concerns have increased five fold in the...
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Improving Understanding & Consistent Application of the Montana Food Policy Modernization Law
Award Amount: $49,974
Institution: AERO
Project Director: Lindsay Ganong (lganong@aeromt.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
AERO implemented two successful workshop series helping Montana producers mitigate...
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Increasing Access and Participation in Crop Insurance Programs among Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers through Risk Management Education, Culturally Appropriate Outreach, and Technical Assistance
Award Amount: $99,999
Institution: Michigan Food and Farming Systems
Project Director: Jennifer Silveri (jen@miffs.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
This project addresses production, market, financial, and legal risk management...
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Introduction to Risk Mitigation through Human
Resource Management: An Online Certificate
Program.
Award Amount: $42,001
Institution: AgSafe
Project Director: Theresa Kiehn (theresa@agsafe.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The AgSafe Introduction to Risk Mitigation through Human
Resources Management: An...
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Leasing Land 101: Equipping Women Landowners and Tenant Farmers with Farmland Leasing Knowledge and Skills to Reduce Legal, Financial, and Human Risk
Award Amount: $34,502
Institution: The Ohio State University
Project Director: Beth Scheckelhoff (scheckelhoff.11@osu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This risk management project covers Legal, Financial, and Human Risk...
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Managing Production and Financial Risk in Forage Production in Mississippi
Award Amount: $48,970
Institution: Mississippi State University
Project Director: Jeffrey Gore (jg231@msstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project will provide training for forage and cattle
producers in...
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Managing Production, Financial, and Marketing Risks : Producer Education on Contract Development and Crop Insurance Decisions in Industrial Hemp Production
Award Amount: $60,869
Institution: University of Tennessee
Project Director: Aaron Smith (aaron.smith@utk.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
In the last three years, interest in industrial hemp production...
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Managing Production, Financial, and Marketing Risks: Producer Education on Contract Development and Crop Insurance Decisions in Industrial Hemp Production
Award Amount: $53,967
Institution: University of Maryland
Project Director: Paul Goeringer (lgoering@umd.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
In the last three years, interest in industrial hemp production...
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Managing risk associated with the use of automatic milking and feeding systems (robots) in dairy farms of the Southern region.
Award Amount: $49,976
Institution: Virginia Tech
Project Director: Gonzalo FERREIRA (gonf@vt.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The use of automated systems (also known as "robots") is...
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Managing Risks for Beginning Farmers in Urban Agriculture: focused on SD/LR Women, African American and LatinX growers
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Urban Growers Collective
Project Director: Erika Allen (erika@urbangrowerscollective.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
Urban Growers Collective will provide risk management education for producers...
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Marketing and Legal Risk Management for Beginning Farmers Accessing Wholesale Markets
Award Amount: $96,495
Institution: Trustees of Tufts College
Project Director: Timothy Griffin (timothy.griffin@tufts.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
To better equip beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers who are...
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Mastering Farm Risk Management ("MyFaRM")
Award Amount: $98,085
Institution: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Project Director: Nicole Cook (nlcook@umes.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
This project delivers free, in-person and online classes for underserved...
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Measuring unmet labor needs, identifying resource gaps, and characterizing recruitment and retention strategies for Colorado’s agricultural workforce
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: Colorado State University
Project Director: Alexandra Hill (alexandra.e.hill@colostate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects
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Minimizing Risks of Historically Underserved Producers through Outreach, Capacity Building and Increased Markets
Award Amount: $99,952
Institution: SouthEast Michigan Producers Association (SEMPA)
Project Director: Cary Junior (sempafarms@gmail.com)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
The Southeast Michigan Producers
Association (SEMPA) is cooperative comprised of Socially...
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Mitigating Risk Across Common Barriers to Profitability
Award Amount: $30,000
Institution: Annie's Project--Education for Farm Women
Project Director: Doris Mold (doris@anniesproject.org)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project will provide an
opportunity for a cross sector of...
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Mitigating Risks for Beginning Farmers Evaluating Entering the Hemp Market
Award Amount: $30,000
Institution: University of Vermont
Project Director: Heather Darby (heather.darby@uvm.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This
project will develop and deliver educational resources to 1100 beginning...
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Navigating an Uncertain Farm Employment Environment with Comprehensive Support
Award Amount: $49,585
Institution: Farm Commons
Project Director: Rachel Armstrong (rachel@farmcommons.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Through this project, 220 farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin will...
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Nevada Risk Management Project for Producers Undeserved by Crop Insurance
Award Amount: $60,000
Institution: University of Nevada, Reno
Project Director: Staci Emm (emms@unr.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
The
“Nevada Risk Management Project for
Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance” will...
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New York Dairy and Livestock Risk Management Education Project
Award Amount: $100,000
Institution: Cornell University
Project Director: Christopher Wolf (caw364@cornell.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
New York dairy and livestock producers are underserved by Federal...
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Oklahoma Statewide Women in Agriculture Conference
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: OSU Extension
Project Director: Sonya McDaniel (sonya.mcdaniel@okstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($5,000 maximum)
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Passing it On: A Farm Succession Education and Resource Collaborative for California
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: California FarmLink
Project Director: Nathan Weller (nathan@cafarmlink.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This proposal expands upon FarmLink’s farm succession work across California...
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Phase II: Estate and Farm Succession Planning and the Next Generation of Farmers in Alabama
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Alabama A&M University
Project Director: E'licia Chaverest (elicia.chaverest@aamu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Phase II focuses on estate and succession planning to address...
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Positioning for Success - Risk Management Education for Forage Farmers
Award Amount: $23,226
Institution: Midwest Forage Association
Project Director: Beth Nelson (bcwn@comcast.net)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
Forages, including alfalfa/alfalfa-grass
mixtures, are the nation’s 3rd most valuable field...
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Promoting Risk Management Education for Baltimore Urban Farmers
Award Amount: $7,000
Institution: University of Maryland
Project Director: Michael Elonge (melonge@umd.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
This project promotes
risk management education to urban farmers by teaching...
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Providing Risk Management Education on Crop Insurance Products and Risk in Agriculture to Underserved Beginning, Veteran, Retiring/Transitioning, and Other Socially Disadvantaged Farmers/Ranchers in Wyoming 2020-21.
Award Amount: $60,000
Institution: University of Wyoming
Project Director: John Hewlett (hewlett@uwyo.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
The overall goal of this project is to ensure that...
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Putting the Tools to Work:
Strategies and support for sound business decision making
Award Amount: $33,193
Institution: CISA
Project Director: Kelly Coleman (kelly@buylocalfood.org)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project will help western Massachusetts
farmers address financial risk. Participants...
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Rapid Response to Emerging Risk for Beginning Farmers
Award Amount: $94,889
Institution: Land Stewardship Project
Project Director: Karen Stettler (stettler@landstewardshipproject.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
The goal of Rapid Response to Emerging Risks for Beginning...
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Reducing Climate Change Risks for Farmers and Ranchers in the Sierra Nevada Foothills
Award Amount: $49,990
Institution: University of California Cooperative Extension
Project Director: Cindy Fake (cefake@ucanr.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Climate change has significantly increased
risks for producers in the northern...
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Reducing Risk and Improving Resiliency for New England Women Livestock Producers in Sustainable Agriculture
Award Amount: $32,122
Institution: University of New Hampshire Sponsored Programs Administration
Project Director: Elaina Enzien (elaina.enzien@unh.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This program will provide an opportunity for women livestock producers...
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Reducing Risk in Fruit and Veg Production through Improved On-Boarding of New Farm Employees
Award Amount: $29,631
Institution: Cornell University
Project Director: Elizabeth Higgins (emh56@cornell.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
In “Reducing Risk in Fruit
and Veg Production through Improved On-Boarding...
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Reducing Wildfire and Drought Risk for Forest Producers in the San Juan Islands: Overcoming Barriers and Catalyzing Action
Award Amount: $49,341
Institution: Northwest Natural Resource Group
Project Director: Kirk Hanson (kirk@nnrg.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Forest producers in Washington’s San Juan County face
challenging conditions because...
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Risk Management and Emergency Preparedness in Puerto Rico
Award Amount: $99,792
Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Project Director: Alexandra Gregory (alexandra.gregory@upr.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
In 2017 hurricane
María stroked Puerto Rico and in the beginning...
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Risk Management Education - Preparing Agricultural Decision Makers, 2020-21
Award Amount: $98,640
Institution: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Project Director: Steven Klose (sklose@tamu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
An extended period of continued low commodity prices, growing debt,...
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Risk Management Education for Dairy and Beef Producers in AZ, NM, and NV
Award Amount: $99,990
Institution: University of Arizona
Project Director: Russell Tronstad (tronstad@ag.arizona.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
Primary goals of this project are to improve the risk...
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Risk Management Education for Farmers With On-Farm Visitors
Award Amount: $24,473
Institution: Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Project Director: Kendra Meyer (ksmeyer@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project is building off previous in-person workshops to give...
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Risk Management Education for Maine Aquaculture Producers Through Strategic Business Planning
Award Amount: $37,943
Institution: Maine Aquaculture Association
Project Director: Christian Brayden (christian@maineaqua.org)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project will focus on improving risk management
education for Maine...
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Risk Management Education for Massachusetts Producers Underserved by Federal Crop Insurance and USDA Disaster Programs
Award Amount: $99,991
Institution: University of Massachusetts
Project Director: Lisa McKeag (lmckeag@umext.umass.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
The project addresses underserved specialty crop and dairy producers who...
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Risk Management Education for Nebraska Livestock and Forage Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Award Amount: $63,684
Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Project Director: Jay Parsons (jparsons4@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
This project will focus on delivering risk management education to...
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Risk Management Education in Vermont 2020-2021
Award Amount: $99,139
Institution: The University of Vermont
Project Director: Jake Jacobs (jake.jacobs@uvm.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
This project concentrates risk management and crop insurance
education to new...
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Risk Management Hands-on Education of Federal Insurance programs and Business Tools for Dairies in the Western Region
Award Amount: $86,238
Institution: Regents of the University of Idaho
Project Director: Hernan Tejeda (htejeda@uidaho.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
This
project addresses risk management topics covering marketing and financial risk
by...
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Risk Management Strategies for Iowa’s Beginning and Women Farmers in Uncertain Times
Award Amount: $100,000
Institution: Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Project Director: Madeline Schultz (schultz@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
In 2020, the uncertainty of global trade, a
global pandemic, and...
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Risk Management Tools and Resources for Western Livestock Producers
Award Amount: $99,591
Institution: Utah StateUniversity
Project Director: Ryan Feuz (ryan.feuz@usu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
USU proposes to work with Master Stockman Consulting (MSC),
RMA and...
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Simplifying Risk Management Through Collaboration and Innovation
Award Amount: $96,500
Institution: University of Connecticut
Project Director: Joseph Bonelli (joseph.bonelli@uconn.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2020 Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance
Summary
Risk management subject topics:Production risk management strategies including crop insurance...
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Strategic Investment in Limited-Resource Farmers to Mitigate and Manage Risk in Mississippi
Award Amount: $49,644
Institution: National Center for Appropriate Technology
Project Director: Rockiell Woods (rockw@ncat.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
i. NCAT’s project addresses Aspirational Goals of production,
marketing, financial, legal,...
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Strengthening Veteran Farms through Risk Management Education
Award Amount: $42,410
Institution: Veterans In Agriculture
Project Director: Beth Grabau (beth@veteransinagriculture.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
Veterans have a unique and varied interest in
agriculture. Many...
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Structuring the Farm to Succeed: What Farm Business Entity is Right for You
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: University of Minnesota Extension
Project Director: C. Robert Holcomb (holcombr@umn.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
University of Minnesota extensions
agricultural business management team, in partnership with...
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Sustainable corn rootworm management in Iowa
Award Amount: $3,000
Institution: Iowa State University
Project Director: Erin Hodgson (ewh@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($3,000 maximum)
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Teaching Livestock and Horticulture Production and Financial Risk Management to New and Beginning Oklahoma Veteran Farmers.
Award Amount: $34,922
Institution: Oklahoma State University
Project Director: Joshua Campbell (joshua.campbell@okstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
This project addresses production, marketing and financial
risks generally experienced by...
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Testing the Climate Resilience Toolkit: Appropriate Climate Change Adaptation Tools for Small-scale and Diversified Farms
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: Rhizobia
Project Director: Natalia Pinzon Jimenez (natalia@nataliapinzon.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects
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The Art of Range Podcast: Reaching Ranchers Nationwide with New Risk Education
Award Amount: $49,789
Institution: WSU Kittitas County Extension
Project Director: Tipton Hudson (hudsont@wsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The Art of Range podcast was established in 2018 to...
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The Demand for and Development of Cost Management Control Tools and Programming
Award Amount: $3,000
Institution: University of Nebraska Lincoln
Project Director: Matthew Stockton (mstockton2@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects ($3,000 maximum)
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Underserved Producers Strengthened through Technical Assistance and Risk management Training (UPSTART)
Award Amount: $100,000
Institution: Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association
Project Director: nathan harkleroad (nathan@albafarmers.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved
Summary
The project will strengthen the
financial risk management capacity of 100...
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Using Crop Insurance and Preharvest Marketing Strategies to Improve Grain Marketing Risk Management for Kansas Farmers
Award Amount: $49,999
Institution: Kansas State University
Project Director: Daniel O'Brien (dobrien@ksu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Kansas State University has an established record of providing innovative...
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Virginia Sustainable Farms and Agribusiness Education Initiative
Award Amount: $48,584
Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Project Director: John Bovay (bovay@vt.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
The goal of the project is to enhance farm viability...
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Western Meat School: A hybrid in-person and online learning experience for farmers & ranchers to reduce marketing, financial, and legal risk and strengthen local meat supply chains.
Award Amount: $46,694
Institution: Oregon State University
Project Director: Rebecca Thistlethwaite (thistler@oregonstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Increasingly more livestock
producers want to diversify and expand their market...
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Western Region Adaptive Ag Water Symposium
Award Amount: $5,000
Institution: The Dry Farming Institute
Project Director: Amy Garrett (dryfarminginstitute@gmail.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Exploratory Projects
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What are the Odds: A Decision Tool to Simulate Probabilities of Success for Farm Transition Tools
Award Amount: $49,983
Institution: Oklahoma State University
Project Director: Shannon Ferrell (shannon.l.ferrell@okstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Recent research at Oklahoma State University suggests many
farms may be...
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Who's Going to Fill My Shoes: Planning from the beginning to the end for succession in a farming operation education project
Award Amount: $35,118
Institution: Texas Corn Producers Association
Project Director: Angie Martin (angie@texascorn.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
In
the next decade, Texas will experience the largest intergenerational land
transfer...
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Whole Farm and Enterprise Financial and Production Records and Analysis to Improve Business Planning and Profit, Adapt Technology, Improve Family and Business Relationships and Communication, and Improve Farmer Well-Being
Award Amount: $48,724
Institution: Snow College
Project Director: Jay Olsen (jay.olsen@snow.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
Through regular, one-on-one instruction and workshop activities, participants
will grow a...
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Wildfire Preparedness: Assisting Ranchers with Wildfire Risk Minimization, Wildfire Response, and Post-Fire Recovery
Award Amount: $49,720
Institution: California Cattlemen's Association
Project Director: Kirk Wilbur (kirk@calcattlemen.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2020 Education Projects
Summary
2018 was California’s worst fire year on record, spurred in
part...
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Winter Risk Management Webinar Series
Award Amount: $84,563
Institution: Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Project Director: Christa Hartsook (hartc@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2020 ERME Underserved Producers
Summary
This project builds off successful online education modules from the...
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